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dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Rika had no personality and her only moods were horny, pissed off or sad that's it. 0 character development, zero personality, just a lost girl who's been infatuated with an asshole for so long that she's willing to do anything he wants.
Michael is just a boy/man whose love language is degradation, violence and angry sex.
Rika needs serious therapy, counseling and a new brain basically because how are you going to end up with someone who froze your account, burned your house down and tried to gang r*pe you and you still think yes, this man loves me and I'm going to spend the rest of my life with him 😒
I'll probably read the 2nd book even though everything in me is telling me not to do it because everyone says that it's a lot better than the first one. But even if I end up liking that one (which seems pretty unlikely), I doubt I'll read Damon's book because I don't think there's any believable way to give that pedo a redemption arc.
The only reason this book is getting two stars is because the spicy scenes (the consensual ones) were spicing the right way. Specially the one with Michael, Rika and Kai, and the other reason for the 2 stars is because the book kept me curious and even though I hated a lot of things that were happening, I really wanted to know what the hell they thought Rika did to them that they were willing to wait 3 years for their revenge. The answer was disappointing tho, I expected something worse but we'll that was a common through out this book. I expected the story to get better at some point but it just became worse and worse the more I read.